Life and pondering the merits of a NO REFUND CULTURE
Loved stuff
Loved stuff: A left brainer
Oct 22nd
When we think the right side of our brain focuses on the visual, and processes information in an intuitive and simultaneous way, looking first at the whole picture then the details. The focus of the left side is verbal, processing information in an analytical and sequential way, looking first at the pieces then putting them together to get the whole.
Inspired by Dan Baxters Blog I took the same Art Institute of Vancouver’s creativity test. It turns out that I am on the whole rather well balanced – how could this be you ask – I’m not entirely sure I would retort although I am more of a left brainer and here are my results…
As much as I want to be an artist and creative, it turns out I am at heart a geek and scientist :+)).
Loved stuff: Cool wallpaper
Sep 12th
Discovered a great new restaurant in Belsize Park. Fab food and great decor. Check out this wallpaper – it’s ace.
Loved stuff: holidays
Sep 1st
Currently on holiday in the mountains of Andalucia. I haven’t felt this relaxed for at least four or five years. I think this place is my spiritual home. I love it here.
Loved stuff: My Nike IDs
Jul 17th
I am totally in love with my new Nike ID trainers. They are so comfy and feel like a pair of slippers. They are my perfect trainers because I designed them on an app on my iPhone a month ago. They then get made especially for you. How cool is that? Not at all expensive either.
Check out the website www.NIKEiD.Nike.com.
Love Nike even more now.
Loved stuff: Inspiring people
Jul 15th
Over the course of the last few months I have made a number of new acquaintances, friends and people that I have reconnected with that have really inspired me. Past uni folk, people that I have met up with through Twitter engagement and through work. These people are smart, kind and thoughtful. Great stuff.
Loved stuff: The new karaoke that makes you smile
Jun 6th
If you watched the Eurovision Song Contest last week (like me) you may have enjoyed the excellent flash mob of Europeans (and folk from other countries close[ish] to Europe) dancing away during the interlude before the scoring started. My friend Rhian is fascinated by the flash mob and has pronounced it “The new karaoke”. Flash mobs certainly aren’t that new but added to a sing along they give a karaoke a big lift.
There really is something mesmerising about watching a flash mob get going. Loads of people all moving in unison, it is amazing. There must be some genetic reason that our eyes get glued to this (matching armies make you fixate in the same way). Anyway, here is a selection of flash mob antics from YouTube – ENJOY…
EUROVISION 2010 – takes a while to get going but stick with it (the heavy handed bouncers at the start are classic!) PS London flash mob contribution rubbish in this video – ho hum it just matches the TERRIBLE last place performance of the UK this year!:
BEYONCE SINGLE LADIES (100 OF THEM!) – sound not great but brilliant dancing:
A MEGA-MIX FROM BONDI BEACH – camp as hell amazingness:
OPRAH AND THE BLACK-EYED PEAS:
Loved stuff: Su-Bo is just amazing
Nov 27th
I have downloaded Susan Boyle’s new album. It is stunning. I am getting Streisand-like goose bumps just listening to it. Wild Horses, her first single, makes me well up with tears every time I hear it. Her voice is absolutely beautiful: totally, overwhelmingly stunning. I know I am gushing but it is fabulous.
Apparently the album is breaking records left, right and centre in terms of number of downloads, blah,blah,blah. I am not surprised and wholeheartedly encourage you to get yourself a copy (or at least get one for your Mum for Christmas but load it up on your iTunes first). ;+)
Never has the saying about a book, its cover and judgement been so apt. The stylists have really gone to town on her mind and she is looking much groomed. I hope she stays her quirky slightly dishevelled self (great to see her with neat eyebrows though).
I want Mr Cowell to set up a Leona and Susan duet on the night of the X Factor final.
Actually do you know what, on second thoughts this might be unwise, I might end up hospitalised with emotional exhaustion!
Loved stuff: My advice… get on and commit to ‘The One’
Oct 16th
Now you may or may not know, but on the 29 August, six odd weeks ago, I married my boyfriend. I am so pleased that I have done it. Chad and I are officially partners in crime.
There have been a duo of recurring questions that people have asked me:
Question one (in the one hour lead up to and after the ceremony): Are you feeling / did you feel nervous?
Question two (from about two weeks after the ceremony): Do you feel different?
So the answers to these…
In response to question one the answer is ‘no’ – I’d never felt so serene and content in my life.
The response to question two is ‘yes’ and also ‘no’ – let me explain myself – yes I do feel different, but not different different – just a more intense range of emotions than before: more secure, happier, more loved, more committed, closer, just more of a range of positve feelings that started in the first few days of meeting my (now) husband.
In the finale of my official wedding speech I talked about one of my favourite characters from one of my favourite TV shows of all time: Charlotte from Sex in the City. I loved her character – she always believed that there was ‘The One’ and she never lost the faith, despite the disappointment, despite kissing many frogs that never morphed into the prince.
As I mentioned in front of my friends and family (having consumed a suitable volume of bubbles) – I’ve ‘kissed’ many (many, many) frogs and had the most disastrous and toxic six and a half year relationship (that a therapist [I need a whole separate post on my belief in the power of talking to a professional] decided was with a narcissistic psychopath). But I never lost my faith, like the fictional Charlotte, that ‘The One’ is out there.
My toast at the end of my speech was: ‘To Chad, to my amazing Chad, my The One’.
He is just that, and I am going to work really hard to make sure of it.
I am sorry that this post might come across as ‘smug married’ but I don’t apologise and I don’t care if I sound preachy.
So many of the people I know don’t throw themselves into a relationship – they hold back, play games and quite frankly waste time. You know if the one you are with is a keeper or a stinker who needs to be binned.
If your partner is your best mate (who you love doing intimate stuff with) then just go for it.
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